3 main theories of emotional experience:

James-Lange theory of emotion

Stimuli trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system, which produces an emotional experience in the brain. see the bear, autonomic activity, experience. Different emotions are different experiences of different patterns of bodily activity.

Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Stimuli simultaneously trigger activity in the autonomic nervous system and emotional experience in the brain. See the bear, autonomic activity/experience fear. Cannon argued weren't enough unique patterns of autonomic activity to account for all the unique emotional experiences.

Two-factor theory of emotion

Schacter-Singer. See the bear, autonomic activity, experience fear based on interpretation given what's in the environment. People can have the same bodily response to all emotional stimuli, but they interpret that response differently on different occasions.

Fast/Slow pathways of fear

Amygdala

received information directly from the thalamus. Needs to make one simple decision "Is this bad for me?" If the amygdala answers yes, initiates neural process that activate sympathetic nervous system in preparation for flight or fight.

Reappraisal

Emotional Expression

emotional states influence the way we talk (intonation, inflection, loudness & duration), listeners can infer a speaker's emotional state with better-than-chance accuracy. Can also infer emotional states from how someone walks and facial expressions.

bulimia nervosa

anorexia nervosa

intense fear of being fat and severe restriction of food intake, distorted body image, think fat when actually emaciated, high achieving perfectionists, have high levels of grelin in blood-they override signal.